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(No Model.)

A. B. REEVES. HOOD FOB, THRASHER STRAW CARRIERS.

Patented Sept. 8, 1891.

wvamtoz GUM/e41 qwitmom UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED B. REEVES, OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO REEVES & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

HOOD FOR THRASHER STRAW-CARRIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,369, dated September 8, 1891.

Application filed August 5, 1889. Serial No. 319,746- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: is formed of three pieces of canvas f, g, and Be it known that. I, ALFRED B. REEVES, a h, Fig. Piece f of the cover has parallel citizen of the United States, residing at edges, one of which is of the same length as lumbus, in the county of Bartholomew and the rod-forming frame E, and the other is State of Indiana, have invented a new and shorter, and the ends are cut at a suitable 55 useful Hood for Thrasher Straw-Carriers, of angle to connect the two edges. Piece g has which the following is a specification. one straight edge and is cut diagonally across My lnventlon relates to an improved hood the ends and slightly rounded at the obtuse for thrasher straw-carriers. angles thus formed with the other edge, as

The object of myimprovement is to provide shown, in such a manner that the sum of the 60 a foldable hood adapted to be secured to the length of the short edge and the ends is equal discharging end of a straw-carrier, so as to to the length of the short edge of piecef. guide and protect from winds the straw dis- Piece h is but half the width of the other charged therefrom, which shall be'of such a pieces and has two parallel edges, one of which shape when extended as to present a nearly is shorter than the other, and the ends are 65 rectangular opening having slightly-rounded cut diagonally, as shown, so that the shorter outer corners at the end where the straw enedge and the two ends are equal in length to ters, so as to admit the straw freely, said corthe longer edge of piece g. The several pieces ners being more rounded as the discharge end are stitched together in the order shown in of the hood is approached, "so as to slightly Fig. 4, the outer edge of piecefbeinghemmed 7o gather the straw and keep it within the limso as to receive frame E, and the contiguous its of the laterally-oscillating straw-carrier of edges of pieces f and g being overlapped and a straw-stacking machine, all as hereinafter double-stitched so as to embrace and receive fully described. frame B. The outer edge of frame his turned 2 5 The accompanying drawings illustrate my and is tacked to frame A. The cover, being 75 invention. thus construct-ed, fits smoothly and is securely Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the hood attached to the frames. The receiving end of in position. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 hood being nearly square, with only slightlyis a plan of the lower frame. Fig. 4 is a plan rounded corners, admits the straw freely, and

0 of the pieces which form the cover. the increasing roundness of the corners to- 80 Aisathreesided rectangular frame, formed ward the discharging end prevents the loss of a single piece of bent wood and having of straw at the corners.

slightly-rounded corners. I claim as my invention B is a second frame, similar to A, but hav- The above described foldable thrasher- 5 ing its corners bentto form a curve of greater hood, consisting of the woodenframes A and 85 radius than the corners of frame A. The B, pivoted together, the canvas covering conends of frame B, at its open side, are pivoted sisting of the pieces f, g, and h, formed as to the sides of the frameA at O at a sufficient shown and described, said piecesfand g bedistance from the ends to permit the securing ing overlapped at their contiguous edges and of frame A to the sides of the thrasher strawforming a pocket for inclosiug-frame B, and 0 carrier D. the iron frame E, independently mounted in E isathird frame,similar in shape to frame the free edge of the cover, said frame A be- B, except that its corners are still more ing bent to form rounded corners at its anrounded and it is formed, preferably, of iron gles, and the frames B and E having succesrod, so that its weight may hold the mouth of sively rounded corners of greater radius, all 5 the hood in position. Frame E is not pivoted combined substantially as specified.

to the other frames, but is connected there- ALFRED B. REEVES. with by the canvas covering. Witnesses:

The canvas cover is of peculiar shape, so as J AS. SMALL,

to fit smoothly over frames A, B, and E. It O. S. TAY. 

